British PM Rishi Sunak To Lose His Parliamentary Seat In Upcoming Poll? Report

• By Thetripurapost Web Desk, Lpndon
• Jun 20, 2024
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Rishi Sunak could become the first British prime minister to lose his parliamentary seat in the upcoming election, according to a Savanta opinion poll published in the Telegraph newspaper ahead of the national vote on July 4. 

Savanta conducted the survey among around 18,000 people between June 7 and June 18. The survey showed that Sunak's Conservative Party is set to get only 53 seats in Britain's 650-member House of Commons, while the opposition Labour Party is projected to get 516 seats. 

Most opinion polls currently show Keir Starmer's Labour Party leading the ruling Conservative Party in the national vote share by around 20 percentage points.

Sunak is predicted to lose his parliamentary constituency in northern England, the Telegraph reported. However, despite this, in what was once considered a safe Conservative seat, Savanta said the contest was still in the balance given the close margin. It said Savanta predicted victory in more than 100 seats by such a small margin that those seats would be at stake.

Britain's opposition Labour Party has condemned as "divisive" a letter written by a Conservative Party candidate to voters that called on voters to vote for him instead of the Labour Party's British Indian candidate to ensure the Kashmir issue is raised in the British Parliament. 

The official campaign letter released by Marco Longhi, Tory candidate from Dudley in England's West Midlands region, began by wishing Muslims on the occasion of Eid al-Adha.

It then refers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election for a third term. "Recently we have seen Modi's party, the BJP, being re-elected in India. This means that the people of Kashmir will face even more difficult times in the months to come," the letter, addressed to "voters in the British Pakistani/Kashmiri community in Dudley," reads.